Table 5.

The table shows the number of molecular differences in the 1.6kb SSU rRNA sequence for every pairwise comparison in the pacificus species-complex.

	P. pacificus	P. exspectatus	P. occultus	P. sikae	P. arcanus	P. kurosawai	P. taiwanensis	P. laevicollis sp. n.	P. maxplancki	P. riukiariae sp. n.	P. neolucani sp. n.	P. degawai sp. n.	P. hongkongensis sp. n.	P. quartusdecimus
P. pacificus	0	8	5	10	6	3	6	21	16	35	25	31	42	36
P. exspectatus	–	0	6	12	8	5	8	23	16	34	27	33	43	38
P. occultus	–	–	0	1	4	2	5	18	14	27	21	27	38	33
P. sikae	–	–	–	0	10	1	4	18	14	32	21	27	38	33
P. arcanus	–	–	–	–	0	3	4	19	14	31	24	30	41	35
P. kurosawai	–	–	–	–	–	0	3	18	13	28	22	28	39	33
P. taiwanensis	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	19	14	29	24	30	41	35
P. laevicollis sp.n.	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	18	35	34	36	47	42
P. maxplancki	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	29	28	30	41	39
P. riukiariae sp.n.	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	5	4	14	19
P. neolucani sp.n.	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	6	17	18
P. degawai sp.n.	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	14	19
P. hongkongensis sp.n.	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	23
P. quartusdecimus	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0